In reply to Vanessa Anne Blaylock.

I wondered about that. Several of us had Gmail accounts that were the names of our podcasts, so there really was no personal information to supply to Google. It was all well and good until I thought it would be a good idea to have a G+ page for one of the shows, and was given all sorts of denials when I tried to set it up, saying that my personal info wasn't valid, and I thought "well duh, it's a podcast, not a person".

Then later jumped through more hoops converting a couple big sites to use Co-Authors Plus and Genesis Co-Authors Plus, to provide bylines and author boxes for guest authors (and their various social profiles) without needing to add accounts to the WordPress sites... so all that work will be for no search gain going forward? Nice.

So, the witch hunt was the result of him being angry at being scammed by a Nigerian prince with a sweet deal for him or something?

That said, I will be floored if Google kills off G+ before the kill off Feedburner... been waiting for them to ring that death bell for 2 years now.